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Government Irrigating Ditch on the Flathead Reservation. 



homestead near Ruby and in speaking of his success in farming without irrigation 

 said he had just harvested his crop of spring wheat and that is went better than 

 30 bushels to the acre. He says he considers that a very good showing when the fact 

 that the grain was not planted until the 17th day of May is taken into consideration. 



MEAGHER COUNTY. 



Judith Gap Journal — The 310-acre field adjoining town on the west was threshed 

 out a little over a week ago. There were 18,290 bushels threshed out of the field, or 

 at the rate of 59 bushels per acre. This yield was made after a hail loss of 12^4 

 per cent had been paid and taking this into consideration the yield of the field if it 

 had not been struck by hail would have been 63 bushels per acre. The field belongs 

 to C. R. Stone and has been farmed by him and Walter "Witt very successfully for the 

 past two years. The land was originally state school land and was purchased by Mr. 

 Stone some five years ago. A year ago Mr. Stone declined $60.00 an acre for the land 

 that many an old-timer would not have given a dollar an acre for up to seven or 

 eight years ago. And this same land produced 63 bushels of wheat per acre this year 

 — more than half the price of the land at $60 an acre after paying all expenses. 



Harlowton Correspondence in Anaconda Standard — Additional reports of the 

 threshing in this district are coming in daily from the three main divisions of terri- 

 tory adjacent to the city. The following this week have been reported: C. R. Stone 

 of Judith Gap, 320 acres of Turkey Red, averaging 59 bushels per acre, and 200 acres 

 of spring wheat with 48 bushels to the acre; Clarence Morgan of Judith Gap, 100 

 acres of Turkey Red with 53 bushels to the acre; Pearson of the Gap, 80 acres of 

 winter wheat at 40 bushels; Wilmer Johnson, 30 acres of Turkey wheat at 42 bush- 

 els; Milton Dressback, 30 acres of spring wheat with 34 bushels to the acre, and 90 

 acres of winter wheat with 25 bushels, and 20 acres of oats at 50 bushels the acre. 

 Ed. Jacobson had 11 acres of Karkhieff wheat which ran 40 bushels to the acre on 



